Free Bus-Subway Transfers: A Good First Step This week, the Straphangers Campaign, Environmental Defense Fund, the New York Urban League, the Tri-State Transportation Campaign and others called in a letter for the MTA to offer weekly and mont...
Way Cleared for NY/NJ Rail Link The Union County (NJ) Board of Freeholders formalized its agreement to repair and market the Staten Island Railroad and the Rahway Valley spur, which connects to Staten Island's Howland Hook...
East Side: Bring Back the Trains Stating that residents of the East Side and Upper Manhattan have "fewer transportation options than their parents and grandparents," NYC City Councilman A. Gifford Miller, chair of the City Council's ...
Feds Say New York Transport Planning OK The New York Metropolitan Transportation Council -- the "Metropolitan Planning Organization" for downstate NY -- held its first meeting in three years on Thursday. The Council is comprised of ...
A.C. Train Access at Stake The NJ Bureau of Utilities and Right of Way has requested public comments on the portion of NJ DOT's proposed marina highway tunnel that will cross the tracks leading to the Atlantic City Rail ...
TA Closes Subway Station For Summer The 76 foot deep 168 St. station on the IRT '1' and '9' line will be closed from July 5 to Sept. 8 while motors, cables and interiors on the elevators. The station, a transfer point between the '1' a...
NY Legislature May Dump Diesel On the heels of an MTA board vote to buy 350 diesel buses for $88 million, a bill passed the NY State Assembly this week that creates a long-range plan to convert the MTA's entire fleet of diesel b...
Free Transfer By-product: Half-Dollar Vans? Among other things, the end of two-fare transit zones next month may settle the debate as to whether "dollar van" service is complementary to or competes with official transit service.
Some say tha...
Highway Ramp Could be Bike/Ped Boon Manhattan residents and the New York AAA chapter are challenging NYS DOT designs for the 48th Street ramp project on the FDR Drive, calling the current alignment unsafe and a hindrance to East Rive...
Region Hosts World Pollution Talks This week, an environmental summit at the United Nations took up the issue of global climate change. President Clinton spoke at the conference yesterday but stopped short of committing the U.S. t...
